Active shooter at UCLA

What is it about the reporting of this story that you are taking issue with? Does the academic dispute with the professor really not ring true to you? He wrote a blog post accusing the professor of stealing his computer code. This doesn't seem like a whitewash to me.

 

I doubt it's even part of the story. He strikes me as having been severely ill. Mental illness is a tragic, tragic thing.

We had a female doctoral student (Chinese) lose it a few years ago. She got it in her head there was a clique of professors working to boot her from the program, seeing as how her comprehensive exam results had been slow in coming (she'd actually passed). So she tried to go in and see the dean to complain, and when the secretary wouldn't let her in she physically attacked the secretary. She had been a good student, but she'd also been odd. This was the first time, however, that it was clear she was mentally ill. Fortunately she didn't do much damage. She was institutionalized for a brief time, as they processed her paperwork for the trip back to China. As I understand it her parents met her and the institution's security team at the airport, where she was quickly strapped in for the flight home.

 

Certainly possible, but at 38, he's a little old for the kind of schizophrenic break we've seen in other, otherwise bright, young, college students.

 

I'm sure the professor upset him. So did the female in Minnesota.

But why did he resort to violence?

What were his influences?

Did he play first person shooter video games? Listen to violent music?

 

I'm sure that's what you're getting at. Those things.

Again: What is it about the reporting that you are taking issue with? How would you propose they write this?

"It is also notable that the shooter has a Muslim-sounding name. Sometimes, such people kill other people due to religion."

 

Is this a long con going back to the North Carolina shooting where the shoe was on the other foot and a white person killed a Muslim woman? Is there another white person I'm forgetting about who has been aggrieved under similar circumstances? Let's get to the point.

 

Whatever it is, YF just wants us to know he is concerned.

 

Sure. But other bright, young college students tend to be, you know, young. It's a numbers thing.

We don't know the whole story. He could have had his illness under control with medication and then stopped taking it. I have a very close friend from my youth whose family is basically being held hostage by his older child's mental illness. She gets on her medication, things get better, they breathe a sigh of relief ... then just when they think things are going well, she quits taking her medication. He went to get her at college a couple of weeks ago, and the moment he saw her he knew she was off her medication. He didn't even take her home; he drover her straight to the institution to get her back on track.

I'm not saying the guy didn't do this for some religiously or culturally inspired reason. I'm just saying it seems far more likely to me that he was just a terribly disturbed young (to me) man.

 

I think it was the math. Engineers have to learn a lot of math.

 

Somewhere, Billy Madison is really glad he called that guy.

 

However, mid 30s-early 40s is also when mood swings with mental health get more egregious.

 

YF is going to swoop down and bring pot into this. It's what he does.